An innate ratio processing ability may serve as the building block for math knowledge and help in determining our aptitude for understanding fractions and other formal mathematical concepts, new ...

A farmer has 2 cats and 5 dogs. Write down the ratio of cats to dogs and dogs to cats. The same farmer also has 85 sheep and 15 cows. Write down the ratio of cows to sheep in its simplest form.

Follow this example of splitting a quantity in a given ratio. \(\pounds30\) is shared between Ken and John in the ratio \(2 : 1\). How much does each get? If something is split in the ratio \(2 : 1\), ...

“Do you see the pattern? Each number in the series after the first two numbers is the sum of the preceding two numbers.” That’s how I began my last column focusing on the Fibonacci sequence, which ...